Thursday, June 9, 2016
7:00 am to 6:00 pm
Onsite registration and Pre-Registration check in begins
8:00 am Power Searching with Church History Library workshop shuttle departs
Snowbird
8:15 am African-American History tour departs Snowbird
8:30 Mormon Women’s Public Life and Activism tour departs Snowbird
12:30 pm Material Culture workshop shuttle departs Snowbird
7:00 pm
Opening Reception and Lower Lights performance
Friday, June 10, 2016
9:00 - 10:00am
Opening Plenary Session
“Mormon Practice: An Anthropologist’s Perspective”
Room: Ballroom 1
Speaker: Fenella Cannell (London School of Economics)
10:30 - 12:00pm
Concurrent Session I
Session #1A: Sacred Books, Solemn Rites: Text, Ritual, and Cosmos in Mormon
History
Room: Primrose A
Chair and Discussant: Robin Jensen (LDS Church History Department)
Kathleen Flake:
(University of Virginia)
“‘There is No End to Priesthood’: Nauvoo’s Marital
Sealings in Light of the Book of Abraham”
Jonathan A. Stapley:
(Independent Scholar)
“Mormon Ordination: Texts, Powers, and
Priesthoods”
Ryan G. Tobler:
(Harvard University)
“Keeping the Books of Life: Rituals and Recording
in Early Mormonism”
Session #1B: Priesthood: Policy and Practice in Africa and Latin America
Room: Primrose B
Chair and Discussant: W. Paul Reeve (University of Utah)
Jeffrey G. Cannon:
(LDS Church History
Department)
“Practicing the Priesthood and Temple Ban in South
Africa”
Russell W. Stevenson:
“Prophets and Prosperity: The Growth of
(Michigan State University) Mormonism in Postcolonial Igboland, 1964-1981”
Jeremy Talmage:
(LDS Church History
Department)
“Blurring the Ban: Brazil’s Pre-1978 Black
Priesthood Ordinations”
Clinton D. Christensen:
(LDS Church History
Department)
“Racial Perception and the Priesthood: Practice
Among Latin American and Caribbean Saints”
Session #1C: Mormonism in Practice: Insights from CHD’s 2016 Releases
Room: Maybird
Chair and Discussant: R. Eric Smith (LDS Church History Department)
Matthew C. Godfrey:
(LDS Church History
Department)
“A Season of Blessings: What We Learn about
Ordination and Patriarchal Blessings in Kirtland,
Ohio, from the Joseph Smith Papers”
Jeffrey D. Mahas:
(LDS Church History
Library)
“‘As Good an Institution As We Should Want’: The
Council of Fifty, the Whistling and Whittling
Movement, and the Quest for a Theocratic
Government”
Jill Mulvay Derr:
(LDS Church History
Department
“How Women Created and Negotiated Their
Institutional Presence: Emergent Narratives from
Key Documents in The First Fifty Years of Relief
Society”
Session #1D: “Deny Not the Gifts of God”: Charismata in Mormon Memory and
Practice
Room: Wasatch B
Chair and Discussant: TBD
Lynn E. Henrichsen:
“We Believe in the Gift of Tongues: Nineteenth and
(Brigham Young University) Early Twentieth Century LDS Missionary
Experiences Learning and Using Foreign
Languages”
John C. Thomas:
“Ambivalence Lost? Remembering and Forgetting
(Brigham Young University- Unknown Tongues”
Idaho)
Alan J. Clark:
(Claremont Graduate
University)
“The LDS Antinomian Faith Crisis: Snuffer,
Pontius, Kelly and the LDS Hunger for Spiritual
Expression”
Session #1E: Practicing as They Practiced: Enhancing Historical Understanding
Through Material Culture and Living History
Room: Magpie B
Chair and Discussant: TBD
Kelly Lelegren:
(Cedar City, UT)
“Home Manufacture and the Mormon Call to Dust
Off the Spinning Wheel”
Debi Brady:
(Utah Tour Guide
(Association)
“Use It Up, Wear It Out, Make It Do, Or Do
Without: Weaving as a Cause for Mormon
Frugality”
Shay Lelegren:
(Cedar City, UT)
“Tinsmithing in the Untamed West”
Hadyn B. Call:
(Utah State University/
Davis School District)
“Interpreting the Past through the Lens of Living
History: The Material Culture of Mormon Pottery”
Session #1F: Lives Consecrated: May and James Talmage, Their Relationship and
Work
Room: Wasatch A
Chair and Discussant: J. Spencer Fluhman (Brigham Young University)
Gerrit van Dyk:
“May Booth Talmage: A Life of Reflection
(Brigham Young University) and Service”
Elise Reynolds:
(LDS Church History
Department)
“James E. Talmage: Scientist, Educator, Apostle,
and PR Man”
Ryan K. Lee:
“Beyond Educator, Scientist, and Apostle: James E.
(Brigham Young University) Talmage as a Family Man”
Session #1G: Of Myths, Memorates, and Missions: The Practices of Modern
Mormon Missionaries
Room: Magpie A
Chair: David Golding (Brigham Young University)
Brant W. Ellsworth:
(York College)
“Portals to the Past: Reflexivity and the Study of
Memorates”
Spencer L. Green:
(Pennsylvania State
University, Harrisburg)
“Return with Bother: Awkward Dating Stories with
Recently Returned Missionaries”
Jared S. Rife:
(Central Pennsylvania
College)
“LDS Missionary Acclimation and Adjustment:
The Stories Fold Two by Two”
Comments:
Eric Eliason (Brigham Young University)
Session #1H: Progressive Practice: Development of Church Institutions at the Turn
of the Century
Room: White Pine
Chair and Discussant: Mary Jane Woodger (Brigham Young University)
Casey Griffiths:
“Young, Progressive, and in Love: Joseph F.
(Brigham Young University) Merrill, Laura Hyde and the Origins of Latter-day
Saint and PR Man”
Nicholas Davis:
“A Line in the Sand: Joseph Keeler’s
(Brigham Young University) Institutionalized Bishop’s Court Practices in the
Progressive Era”
Alec Kearns:
“The Boy Scouts of America and the Development
(Brigham Young University) of Mormon Patriotism in the Progressive Era”
12:15 – 1:45pm
Membership Luncheon
Room: Ballroom 1
Chair: Spencer Fluhman (Brigham Young University)
Annual Membership/Business Report
Roundtable and Audience Discussion:
“Global Practice: Perspectives on Mormon Diversity”
Panelists:
2:00 – 3:30pm
Chiung Hwang Chen (Brigham Young University-Hawai’i)
Gina Colvin (University of Canterbury)
Melissa Inouye (University of Auckland)
Astrid Tuminez (National University of Singapore)
Richard Turley (LDS Church History Department)
Chrystal Vanel (GRSL, Paris, France)
Concurrent Session II
Session #2A: The Council of Fifty Minutes: An Initial Scholarly Appraisal
Room: Primrose A
Chair: Matthew Grow (LDS Church History Department)
Panelists:
Richard Bushman (Columbia University)
Jan Shipps (Indiana University-Purdue University)
Richard Bennett (Brigham Young University)
Paul Reeve (University of Utah)
Session #2B: Gendering Nineteenth-Century Mormonism
Room: Primrose B
Chair: Janelle Higbee
Michael Haycock:
(Alexandria, VA)
“Have Done with Lesser Things: Foundations of
Nineteenth-Century Mormon Masculinity”
Maxine Hanks:
(Salt Lake City, UT)
“And Thou Shalt Be Ordained: Have Mormon
Women Been Ordained Since 1830?”
Lawrence Foster:
(Georgia Institute of
Technology)
“The Impact of the Great Mormon Trek West in
1846-47 on the Establishment of Polygamy and
New Forms of Family and Kinship Ties
among the Latter-day Saints”
Comments:
Don Bradley (LDS Church History Department)
Session #2C: Holy Theatre: Mormon Performance, Identity, and Representation
Room: Maybird
Chair: Callie Oppedisano (Draper, UT)
Tona Hangen:
“Performing Trek: Becoming ‘Pioneer Children’ in
(Worcester State University) the Digital Age”
Sam O’Connell:
“The Sacred and the Profane: Performing Mormon
(Worcester State University) Identities in The Book of Mormon”
Megan Sanborn Jones:
“Testimony in the Muscles, in the Bone: Proxy
(Brigham Young University) Performance at the Mesa Easter Pageant”
Session #2D: From Earthly to Eternal Families: Historical and Cultural Insights
into Latter-day Saint Heaven Discourse
Room: Wasatch B
Chair: Kate Holbrook (LDS Church History Department)
Barbara Morgan and
“Line Upon Line: Joseph Smith’s Growing
Devan Jensen:
Understanding of Families and Heaven”
(Brigham Young University)
Laura Harris Hales:
(Layton, UT)
“Legal Briefs or Pastorals?: The LDS Church’s
Three Official Statements on Marriage and Family”
Jennifer Brinkerhoff-Platt:
(Provo, UT)
“Latter-day Saint Discourse on Eternal Families,
1844-2015: A Cultural Perspective”
Comments: Jenny Reeder (LDS Church History Department)
Session #2E: Twentieth-Century Mormon Practices in Eastern Europe
Room: Magpie B
Chair and Discussant: Roger Minert (Brigham Young University)
Katherine Kitterman:
(American University)
“Undaunted: Austrian Mormon Experience”
Connie Lamb:
“A New Chapter: Recent History of the LDS
(Brigham Young University) Church in Turkey
Ronald Watt:
“Arther Gaeth: The Making of a Mission
(West Valley City Historical President for Czechoslovakia, 1926-1929”
Society)
Session #2F: Mormon Pilgrimages to (the) Holy Land(s)
Room: Wasatch A
Chair and Discussant: Andrew Reed (Brigham Young University)
Mason Allred:
(LDS Church History
Department)
“Dr. Hirschell and Mr. Hyde: Restorationism,
Descendancy, and Orson Hyde’s Shifting Jewish
Identity”
Brett D. Dowdle:
“Promised Gatherings to Promised Lands: Mormon
(Texas Christian University) Gatherings, Early Zionism, and Orson Hyde’s 1840
Mission to Jerusalem”
Amber Taylor:
(Brandeis University)
“A Great Trek to Zion: Manifestations, Movements,
and Meanings of the LDS Presence in the Holy
Land, 1841-1989”
Session #2G: The Perils and Pitfalls of Mormon Biography
Room: Magpie A
Chair and Discussant: Martha Bradley-Evans (University of Utah)
John P. Hatch:
(Signature Books)
“Lorenzo Snow: The Prophet of Paradox”
Devery Anderson:
(Signature Books)
“Willard Richards: Crafting a Life”
John Sillito:
(Weber State University)
“B.H. Roberts: Defender and Advocate of
Mormonism”
Session #2H: Mormonism and Social Practice in Nineteenth-Century France
Room: White Pine
Chair and Discussant: Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State University)
Daryl Lee:
“Mormonism as a Secte Rouges in 19th-Century
(Brigham Young University) French Thought”
Heather Belnap Jensen:
“Romantic Socialism, La Nouvelle Femme, and
(Brigham Young University) Representations of Mormon Women in NineteenthCentury French Art and Literature”
Corry Cropper:
“Dangerous Similarities: Mormons in Nineteenth(Brigham Young University) Century French Fiction”
4:00 – 5:00pm
Concurrent Session III
Session #3A: Author Meets Critics: A Panel Discussion of Hokulani Aikau’s A
Chosen People, A Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i
(University of Minnesota Press, 2012)
Room: Primrose A
Chair: Stanley Thayne (University at North Carolina)
Panelists:
Sujey Vega (Arizona State University)
Dominic Martinez (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus)
Author-Respondent:
Hokulani K. Aikau (University of Hawai’i, Mānoa)
Session 3B: The Intellectual and Theological World of Early Mormonism
Room: Primrose B
Chair and Discussant: Terryl Givens (University of Richmond)
John Rogers:
(Yale University)
“Latter-day Milton: Speculations on an Early
Mormon Reading Practice”
Ian Barber:
(University of Otago)
“A New Chapter to Us: A Novel View of Joseph
Smith’s 1820s Work as a Seer from a Sympathetic
Non-Mormon Reminiscence”
Session #3C: Faith and Science: The Intersection of Mormonism and Eugenics
Room: Maybird
Chair and Discussant: Michael MacKay (Brigham Young University)
Cassandra L. Clark:
(University of Utah)
“Legitimizing Whiteness: John A. Widtsoe’s
Correspondence with Eugenic Scientists in the
Early Twentieth Century”
Gregory Seppi:
“’Our Interest in Eugenics’: The Latter-day Saints
(Brigham Young University) and Early 20th Century Perceptions of Race and
Class”
Session #3D: The Granite Mountain Records Vault
Room: Magpie A
Chair: Reid L. Neilson (LDS History Department)
Presenters:
Joseph P. Monsen (LDS Church History Department)
John H. Heath (LDS Church History Department)
Session #3E: Strangers in the Borderlands: An Unlikely Tale from the Mormon
Mexican Colonies
Room: Magpie B
Chair and Discussant: Barbara Jones Brown (Independent Scholar)
Presenters:
John Gonzalez (Draper, UT)
Dale Van Atta (Ashburn, VA)
Session #3F: TBD
Session #3G: Fundamentalist Mormon Apostolic United Brethren
Room: Magpie A
Chair and Discussant: Janet Bennion (Lyndon State College)
Presenter: Joe Jessop (Hamilton, MT)
Session #3H: “That They May Dwell In a Place of Their Own”: The Evolution of
Deaf Latter-day Saint Worship and Gathering Places
Room: White Pine
Chair and Discussant: Blair Hodges (Brigham Young University)
Presenters:
Doug Stringham (Utah Valley University)
Anne Leahy (Salt Lake City, UT)
7:15 –9:00 pm
Awards Banquet
Room: Total Ballroom
9:15 –10:30 pm
Student Reception
Room: Golden Cliff
Saturday, June 11, 2016
9:00 - 10:00am
Smith-Pettit Lecture
Room: Ballroom 1
Speaker: Grant Wacker
10:30am - 12:00pm
Concurrent Session IV
Session #4A: The Book of Mormon: New Views of an Old Text
Room: Primrose A
Chair and Discussant: Rosalynde Frandsen Welch
Samuel Brown:
(University of Utah)
“‘To Read the Sound of Eternity’: Speech, Text,
and Scripture in the Book of Mormon”
Terryl Givens:
(University of Richmond)
“The Book of Mormon and the Reshaping of
Covenant Theology”
Session #4B: Joseph Smith, Josephine Lyon, and the Puzzles of Nauvoo Polyandry
Room: Primrose B
Chair and Discussant: Merina Smith (San Diego, CA)
Don Bradley:
(Utah State University)
“Did Joseph Smith Father Josephine Lyon? The
Historical Evidence on a Reputed Child of Nauvoo
Polyandry”
Ugo Perego:
(University of Perugia)
“Was Joseph Smith the Biological Father of
Josephine Lyon? The Genetic Evidence”
Brian Hales:
(John Whitmer Historical
Association)
“Polyandry and the ‘Offer’ Mentioned in D&C
132:51”
Session #4C: Contested Memories of the 1838 Missouri-Mormon War
Room: Maybird
Chair: Alexander L. Baugh (Brigham Young University)
David W. Grua:
(LDS Church History
Department)
“Joseph Smith’s 1838-1839 Missouri Jail Letters
and Mormon Persecution Memory”
Brent M. Rogers:
(LDS Church History
Department)
“Gendered Memories of the 1838 Missouri War”
Andrea G. Radke-Moss:
“Sexual Violence and the Practices of Memory:
(Brigham Young University- Competing Constructions of the Missouri Rapes in
Idaho)
LDS and non-LDS Discourses”
Comments:
Steven C. Harper (LDS Church History Department)
Session #4D: On Active Duty: The Utah War’s Women at Home and Afield
Room: Wasatch B
Chair and Discussant: Barbara Morgan
Kenneth L. Alford:
“The Utah War’s 1858 Move South Viewed
(Brigham Young University) through Women’s Eyes
Audrey M. Godfrey:
(Independent Scholar)
“Lifeline by Mail: Utah War Letters From the Field
and Home Front”
William P. MacKinnon:
(Independent Scholar)
“Rescued or Kidnapped: The Trans-Atlantic Saga of
Henrietta Polydore”
Session #4E: Peoples, Places, and Businesses in Territorial Utah
Room: Magpie B
Chair and Discussant: Thomas Alexander (Brigham Young University)
Larry King:
(Orem, Utah)
“Analyzing the Success of ZCMI in Pioneer Utah”
Linda Hunter Adams:
“Archibald Gardner’s Lumber Mills in Big and
(Brigham Young University) Little Cottonwood Canyons”
Robert Haven Briggs:
(Fullerton, CA)
“Ira Hatch: Mountain Meadows Militiaman, Indian
Scout, Explorer and Colonizer on the Mormon
Frontier”
Session #4F: Women Writers and the Practice of Mormonism
Room: Wasatch A
Chair and Discussant: Lisa Olsen Tait (LDS Church History Department)
Saskia Tielens:
(TU Dortmund)
“’When Men Were Men and Women Were
Women’: An Exploration of the Regency Romance
Novel in a Mormon Context”
Sarah Reed:
(University of WisconsinMadison)
“Polygamy and Postmemory: Virginia Sorensen’s
Utah Novels
Scott Hales:
(LDS Church History
Department)
“The Poet and the Apostle: The Correspondence of
Ina Coolbrith and Joseph F. Smith”
Session #4G: Practicing 21st Century Research
Room: Magpie A
Chair and Discussant: Jonathan Murphy (Brigham Young University)
Gerrit van Dyk:
“Online Tools for Mormon Research”
(Brigham Young University)
Ryan Leavitt Combs:
(LDS Church History
Department)
“Online Tools from the LDS Church History”
Trevor Alvord:
“Preserving the Future of History: BYU’s Web
(Brigham Young University) Archive”
Session #4H: A Close Look at William B. Smith: In the Shadow of a Prophet
Room: White Pine
Chair: Glen Leonard
Presenters:
H. Michael Marquardt (Sandy, UT)
Megan Falater (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Response:
Kyle Walker (Brigham Young University-Idaho)
12:30 – 2:00pm
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN or PRE- ORDERED
LUNCH from SNOWBIRD
2:30 - 4:00pm
Concurrent Session V
Session #5A: Ezra Taft Benson and the Rise of American Conservativism after 1960
Room: Primrose A
Chair and Discussant: Robert A. Goldberg (University of Utah)
Newell G. Bringhurst:
(Visalia, CA)
“Ezra Taft Benson’s Quest for the U.S. Presidency”
Matthew L. Harris:
“Ezra Taft Benson, Martin Luther King and the
(Colorado State University, ‘Communist Conspiracy’”
Pueblo)
Patrick Q Mason:
(Claremont Graduate
University)
“Twentieth-Century Environmental Politics in the
Mormon Culture Region”
Session #5B: YouTube as Historical Archive for Lived Religion and Digital
Pedagogy
Room: Primrose B
Chair and Discussant: Joseph Stuart (University of Utah
Jeff Turner:
(University of Utah)
“Deconversion Narratives in the Internet Age: The
‘I am an Ex-Mormon’ Campaign”
John C. Feinauer:
(University of Utah)
“YouTube Mormonism: Arguing the Case of
Mormon Fundamentalism”
Jordan F. Bratt:
“Searching for Mormonism: Digital Religion in the
(George Mason University) Age of YouTube”
Kristine L. Wright:
(Independent Scholar)
“’You are Hereby Called to Serve’: Opening the
White Envelope, Performance and Collective
Identity”
Session #5C: The Practice of Mormon Mothering
Room: Maybird
Chair: Susanna Morrill (Lewis and Clark College)
Emily January Petersen:
(Utah State University)
“Mother’s Work: Organizing Mormon Motherhood
in the Early Twentieth Century”
Kate Holbrook:
(LDS Church History
Department)
“Mothers at Work: A Look at the 1970s”
Dave Hall:
“Changing Realities for Mormon Women: The
(California State University, Gospel Literacy Effort During the Presidency of
Fullerton)
Elaine L. Jack”
Comments:
Claudia Bushman (Columbia University)
Session #5D: The Book of Mormon in Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Room: Wasatch B
Chair and Discussant: Ryan G. Tobler (Harvard University)
Stephen J. Fleming:
(Fallbrook, CA)
“When Did Joseph Smith Know What He Knew?
Hints at Pre-Existence, Deification, and Eternal
Marriage in the Book of Mormon”
Janiece Johnson:
“Becoming A People of the Books: Early Mormon
(Brigham Young University- Converts and the New Word of the Lord”
Idaho)
Taunalyn Ford Rutherford:
(Claremont Graduate
University)
“Book of Mormon and Bhagavad Gita: Latter-day
Saint Practice of ‘Translation’ in India”
Session #5E: Sacred Geography, Sacred Artifacts, Sacred Sites
Room: Magpie B
Chair and Discussant: Emily Utt, LDS Church History Department
Jared Call:
(Utah State University)
“The Geography of the Dissenters”
Charlotte Hansen Terry:
(LDS Church History
Department)
“Documents and Properties for Furs: Wilford C.
Wood and the Preservation of Church History”
Scott C. Esplin:
“Changing Their Practice: Latter-day Saint and
(Brigham Young University) Reorganized Church Approaches to Historical
Session #5F: Mormon Feminist Social Networks in the Late Twentieth and Early
Twenty-First Centuries
Room: Wasatch A
Chair: Christina Duncan (Dixie State University)
Kari Waters:
(Houston, TX)
“Mormon Feminist Social Networks in the Age of
Newsletters and Phone Calls”
Anja Tinajero:
(Morelos, Mexico)
“The Rise of Women’s Blogs in the Early TwentyFirst Century: Mormon Feminism, Secular
Feminism, and Mormon Mommies”
Gina Colvin:
(University of Canterbury)
“Mormon Feminist Storytelling Through
Podcasting”
Comments: Nancy Ross (Dixie State University)
Session #5G: The Public Side of Mormon Distinctiveness, 1831-49
Room: Magpie A
Chair and Discussant: Brent M. Rogers (LDS Church History Department)
Jeremy J. Chatelain:
(University of Utah)
“The Practice and Practicing of Mormon Agenda
Setting in the Times and Seasons, 1839-1842”
Andrew H. Hedges:
“Practice in the Papers: News from Utah, 1847-49”
(Brigham Young University)
Gerrit J. Dirkmaat:
“Agriculture, Adversaries, and Apostasy: Joseph
(Brigham Young University) Smith’s Unpublished Revelation and the Conflict
Over Frederick G. Williams’ Consecrated Farm”
Andrew C. Reed:
“Finding Pathways and Practices for Religious
(Brigham Young University) Tolerance in Early Mormonism”
Session #5H: Mormonism and Religious Sensibility
Room: White Pine
Chair and Discussant: Samuel Brown (University of Utah)
Justin Bray:
(University of Utah)
“The Nose Knows: Mormons, Smell, and Sensory
History”
Randal Powell:
(Claremont Graduate
University)
“’Beyond the Veil’: The Spirit World of Popular
Mormonism”
Nathaniel Wiewora:
(Harding University)
“‘Extreme Force of Language and Energy of
Action’: Antebellum Evangelicals and the
Fanaticisms of Mormonism”
4:30 – 5:30pm
Concurrent Session VI
Session #6A: The Legal World of Early and Contemporary Mormonism
Room: Primrose A
Chair and Discussant: Nate Oman (College of William and Mary)
John S. Dinger:
(Meridian, ID)
“Mormons and the Jury in Hancock County, 18391845”
Kif Augustine-Adams:
“BYU, Civil Rights, and Religious Exemption to
(Brigham Young University) Title IX”
Session #6B: The Elections and Travels of Church Leaders in the Twentieth
Century
Room: Primrose B
Chair and Discussant: TBD
Kenneth L. Cannon II:
(Salt Lake City, UT)
“Separation of Prophet and State? The 1914
Reelection of Reed Smoot”
Reid L. Neilson:
(LDS Church History
Department)
“‘A Fine Intellectual and Spiritual Opportunity’:
Church Historian Leonard J. Arrington’s Tour of
the LDS Church’s Asian Area General Conferences,
August 1975”
Session #6C: Mormonism and World Leaders
Room: Maybird
Chair and Discussant: Jeff Johnson, Utah Historical Society
Ardis E. Parshall:
(Keepapitchinin)
“‘The Matter is Having My Close Attention’:
Discoveries into Winston Churchill’s Investigation
of Mormonism in Britain”
Gary James Bergera:
(Smith-Pettit Foundation)
“Ezra Taft Benson Meets Nikita Khrushchev, 1959:
Memory Embellished”
Session #6D: Mormon Uniqueness and Identity Formation
Room: Wasatch B
Chair and Discussant: Christine Talbot, University of Northern Colorado
Taylor Kerby:
(Claremont Graduate
University)
“In the World, but Not of It: The Drive for
Mormon Uniqueness”
Cristina M. Rosetti:
(University of California,
Riverside)
“‘The Glory of God is Intelligence’: The Centrality
of Religious Education in Mormon Identity
Formation”
Session #6E: Teaching Mormon History: Pedagogy Workshop
Room: Magpie B
Chair: Benjamin E. Park, University of Missouri
Presenters:
Laurie Maffly-Kipp (Washington University in St. Louis)
W. Paul Reeve (University of Utah)
Additional participants TBD
Session #6F: Nathaniel Baldwin and the Spread of Early Fundamentalist
Mormonism
Room: Wasatch A
Chair: David Watson (Independent Scholar)
Craig L. Foster:
(Layton, UT)
“Like Sparks of a Wildfire: The Spread of
Early Fundamentalist Mormonism”
Marianne T. Watson:
(Lehi, UT)
“Nathaniel Baldwin: Key Figure in the
Emergence of the Fundamentalist Mormon
Community”
Comments:
Ken Driggs (Independent Scholar)
Session #6G: Restriction-ism Unveiled! A Workshop on Research Access and
Intellectual Property at the Church History Library
Room: Wasatch B
Session Leader: Keith A. Erekson, Director, LDS Church History Library
Session #6H: The Practice of Mormon Missionary Work
Room: White Pine
Chair and Comments: TBD
Matthew McBride:
(LDS Church History
Department
“‘An Ardent Desire to Speak Myself’: Early
Women Missionaries and Gendered Separate
Spheres”
Kari Lynne Roueche:
(Kingsport, TN)
“Missionary Experiences in Great Britain after
the Call to Zion”
7:00 –9:00 pm
Presidential Banquet
Room: Total Ballroom
MHA Presidential address by Pres. Laurie Maffly-Kipp 2015-2016
9:00 –10:00 pm
Closing Reception
Room: Total Ballroom or Golden Cliff
Sunday, June 12, 2016
9:00 –10:00 am
Sunday Devotional
Room: Combined Primrose or Total Ballroom
Genesis Group and other selected speakers
10:30 – 11:00 am
Post-conference Tour bus loading and
departure from Snowbird
Mining and Community Building in Zion overnight (Park City) bus tour returning
to Snowbird Monday 5:00 pm.